eastglosmog Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Letsby Avenue in Sheffield has the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex (otherwise known as a Police Station) Think it was deliberately named that way. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) Besses o' th' Barn always conjures up slightly smutty images here and must cause non-locals some pronunciation difficulty as does nearby Hall i' th' Wood. Milngavie is famous for mispronunciation and across Glasgow Chatelherault is almost as bad. St. Ives has already features twice but thus far no-one has mentioned Truro which features the delightfully - and accurately - named Squeeze Guts Alley which is a very narrow thoroughfare beside the cathedral. Modesty has determined that those ways in numerous towns formerly known as Gropec*nt Lane no longer bear that moniker; some have been rechristened Grape Lane. Among classy British place names we can include Twatt, Muff, Horsey Windpump, Cowbottom Hovel and the rural estate of Knockensh@g. Streets you might prefer to not live on include Wych Way (in Rowner, near Gosport) while the Royal Standard pub at Par was for a number of years the Wych Way Inn. Edited March 10, 2020 by Gwiwer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 1 hour ago, luckymucklebackit said: Wonder if they could get Rees Mogg to visit, he is the spitting image of Lord Snooty That's Walter the Softy from Dennis the Menace, surely. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 i like a couple of villages in shropshire near ironbridge: Homer and Wig Wig 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 Feydun Boyz (phonetic version) in Essex seems quite exotic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 Cheshire presents us with a stark social choice: Peover Superior or Peover Inferior. The Rector of the parish of Irby and Orby, Lincs., is said to be very happy that his parish is the subject of a papal blessing. The Leicestershire Magnas and Parvas have been mentioned: a favourite of mine is Sheepy Magna. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nickey Line Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 6 hours ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said: If we are onto funny rather than exotic names, Ugley Essex says it all. 5 hours ago, Bernard Lamb said: Or just over the border in Hertfordshire you will find Nasty. Bernard Which of course gave rise to that famous local newspaper headline... 'Nasty man marries Ugley woman' 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 Flash, Staffordshire, the highest village in England, noted for its Womens' Institute and its propensity to get cut off in snow (not this year...) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 24 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Feydun Boyz (phonetic version) in Essex seems quite exotic. Even more so on the rare occasions you hear a French-speaker ..... "T'aydon Bwuh" One from Cornwall, land of great place names - yes these are both actual places and I promise no fury was taken out on the car in question. And one from Australia where they have clearly run out of good street names. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 50 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Feydun Boyz (phonetic version) in Essex seems quite exotic. And Thorpe-le-Soken, and Stanford-le-Hope often refered to by locals as Stanford-no-Hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 Slough. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 That immediately made me think of Les Dawson (Slough of despond). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 It's terribly unfair but I find it difficult to see the signs on the M3/M25 for a local riverside town without thinking of the advertising slogan "Get rid of ugly Staines" Does it require the combination of a smutty mind and a fairly large vocabulary to find the name of our previous Prime Minister's constitutuency slightly titter worthy? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 39 minutes ago, Pacific231G said: It's terribly unfair but I find it difficult to see the signs on the M3/M25 for a local riverside town without thinking of the advertising slogan "Get rid of ugly Staines" Does it require the combination of a smutty mind and a fairly large vocabulary to find the name of our previous Prime Minister's constitutuency slightly titter worthy? Maidenhead was a popular weekend resort for the upper classes in late Victorian / Edwardian times. If Kind Hearts and Coronets is to be believed, it did have a bit of a reputation (for loss of ...). 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Talking of Police stations, and St.Ives (the real one, in Cambridgeshire), when the local nick moved to a new building, the relevant part of Pig Lane became Broad Leas, as its original name was thought degrading to the Force. Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Catbrain, just north of Bristol, always makes me wonder..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 25 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Catbrain, just north of Bristol, always makes me wonder..... There is another down near Swindon. Supposed to refer to the appearance of the mixture of soil and stone resembling a cats brain (if such a thing exists....). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said: Montserrat, a short distance from Barcelona, is one of the most spectacular sites in Europe. Seems strange though to name a street in Bolton after it unless on an estate where all the street names are monastery-related. PS: Seems a bit unlikely. Are other nearby roads named after Caribbean islands? Sadly not. Sabden, Gisburn, Bowland, Gargrave - all in North Yorkshire! I think at the time Montserrat Road was named it was probably the only a minor side road off Chorley Road (now the B6226). If I remember correctly, there was something of historical note happening at the Spanish monastery at the time Montserrat Road was first built, hence the landowner chose the name. It predates the time that councils had any influence over road building/naming, and the name has just stuck. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I always thought Billericay should be somewhere in Ireland. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Have we mentioned Wetwang yet? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 18 minutes ago, MarkC said: Have we mentioned Wetwang yet? Yes John P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikcdab Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 09/03/2020 at 12:41, snitchthebudgie said: You can't beat "Queen Camel" (Somerset) Well West Camel and North Camel for a start.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 I quite fancy Ryme Intrinseca. Or maybe Steeple Bumpstead. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 In fact the whole Camel-lot. Pauncefoot's rather good, though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted March 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2020 One of my favourites is Pendicles of Collymoon https://canmore.org.uk/site/126894/pendicles-of-collymoon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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